Texas Patti Quotes & Sayings

Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests. — Patrick Geddes

It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were erected, one in the West and one in the East; St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the Taj Mahal in Agra. Between them, the two symbolize, perhaps better than words can describe, the comparative level of architectural technology, the comparative level of craftsmanship and the comparative level of affluence and sophistication the two cultures had attained at that epoch of history. But about the same time there was also created - and this time only in the West - a third monument, a monument still greater in its eventual import for humanity. This was Newton's Principia, published in 1687. Newton's work had no counterpart in the India of the Mughals. — Abdus Salam

Funny how imperfections on the outside mean something splendid beneath. — Louise Penny

Texas governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print jacket against what she sees as the unfair treatment of her husband. She tearfully said that he has been 'brutalized' for his faith. — Patti Davis

The stench of wolf - especially an Alpha - is very difficult to get out.
"Then you should keep your distance," she shot back. — Franca Storm

I love ... Eskimo Joe's. I have tons of Eskimo Joe's clothes and cups in my house, 'cause I love Eskimo Joe's. — Brooke Elliott

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human. — Robert Winston

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas. — Patti Stanger

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis

Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you. — Freeman Patterson

I realized that I'd been comparing the inside of my life with the outside of everyone else's; measuring my own fortunes against the cheerful how-are-you-I'm-fine facade that people put on for each other. — Marie Bostwick

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for progressives to be racists. — P. J. O'Rourke